The theory guy never wins
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The theory guy never wins
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#2You have to learn how to execute, too. Creativity is theory, execution is putting it into practice.
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#3Dude, you need both. Perhaps you and your friends who don't read very much aren't very good at it to begin with? Literacy is a lifelong pursuit. Sorry if that seems harsh but I'm gonna react when a dude basically says that reading books will make you less successful. That is some ignorant bullshit.
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#4Dude, you need both. Perhaps you and your friends who don't read very much aren't very good at it to begin with? Literacy is a lifelong pursuit. Sorry if that seems harsh but I'm gonna react when a dude basically says that reading books will make you less successful. That is some ignorant bullshit.
I think the point is to deliver.
You are better off delivering than talking. Shut up, sit down and get shit done so you can deliver.
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#5Dude, you need both. Perhaps you and your friends who don't read very much aren't very good at it to begin with? Literacy is a lifelong pursuit. Sorry if that seems harsh but I'm gonna react when a dude basically says that reading books will make you less successful. That is some ignorant bullshit.
I think the point is to deliver . You are better off delivering than talking. Shut up, sit down and get shit done so you can deliver .
True story.
I had to learn this after my studies. You have to get shit done or nobody listens to you.
But I met many people who just learned this and not much else.
They building huges piles of shit and sell them to people who don't know any better.
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#6What an icky mess of strawman and false dichotomy! Who is this "theory guy" that never wins in business - someone who does only theory, eh? I wonder how well the "practice guy", who acts without any thinking whatsoever, comes out in comparison.
As an aside and fuel for furhter thought, here is one of my favourite quotes (from Less Wrong):
"As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but there are few social encouragements to behave in this manner so the only people who do so are essentially those who are addicted to such intellectual exploration and have no propensity or willingness to take action at all."
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#7Execution is the key, yes. But to "HATE reading", well that is a stretch! Sure a pure theoretical person will have limited success, but to despise reading is not the optimum solution at all.
Also, 3 hour reading a day is not small!
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#8Warren Buffett would seem to be the canonical example of a business guy who reads a lot. He seems to be successful.
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#9Dude, you need both. Perhaps you and your friends who don't read very much aren't very good at it to begin with? Literacy is a lifelong pursuit. Sorry if that seems harsh but I'm gonna react when a dude basically says that reading books will make you less successful. That is some ignorant bullshit.
I think the point is to deliver . You are better off delivering than talking. Shut up, sit down and get shit done so you can deliver .
It seems obvious enough that always reading and never acting is pretty useless: even if you remember everything you read and it was all good information, there's no magic force that turns correct knowledge into anything useful to anyone else.
So… spending every waking hour consuming information isn't a good idea if your goal is to deliver a product. That doesn't mean going in completely half-cocked is the answer either, though.
Would you suggest that a budding young programmer skip reading about computer science, or about interesting new languages and frameworks? After all, C was a perfectly fine tool in the 70s—who needs anything else? And premature optimization is the root of all evil—why even think about algorithmic complexity? The good ol' linked list is all you should ever need, right?
I don't know where exactly the happy medium is, but I suspect there is one. At some point, you have to start actually doing something. That doesn't mean talking and reading are a complete waste of time—just that talking and reading aren't building. They are, at best, giving you extra tools to build and sell a product in the future.
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#10While you are blindly jumping into the claws of the tiger because your man-of-action guts tell you it's a lotus, I'll stick around to grab your wallet while he devours you.
Signed, The Theory Guy
P.S. Spending three seconds to think about why the fuck is a lotus flower striped and why it is purring like a cat could have saved you.
Also, what the heck is a wantrepreneur? Is that the pretentious term for "someone who isn't an antrepreneur, but totally knows everything about it because he read all the blogs on the subject and all the interviews in Forbes"?